MichaelDimmitt

Some of my stuff worth looking at at present.

MichaelDimmitt/scripts
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blogpost-on-avoiding-tutorial-hell-(old)
Working on some blogposts on things that people should learn for using chat saas systems.
- chat saas systems are just smart pattern matching
  - ask why is this code bad
    - fixing and asking the same context why is this code bad it will say the code is great.

fixing and asking a new context why is this code bad it will keep finding issues.

How Context Actually Works:

Model → Inference Server → Client
(Local vs SaaS)

Most developers use AI coding tools every day without understanding what's happening to their context under the hood. Here's what's actually going on and why the same prompt behaves differently depending on where you run it.

Disclaimer: Written with AI — Claude Opus 4.6 via claude.ai alongside human feedback.

The bigsby challenge... get the ai tool to try to sound like mission impossible by prompting only raw materials no shortcuts. reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX4uJSj00Y

Read this as if you had never heard seen anything like this before and are like what the heck is this! And you are being forced to read it.

Remember YOU ARE UNDER DURESS and that should have stress and moments of elevated volume such as a shout or two.

Speaker 1: (Squinting at the paper, speaking slowly and hesitantly) "Uh, okay... 'The pleasure of... Buzby's company... is what I most enjoy.' (Looks up briefly, mildly confused but pushing through) 'He put a tack on Miss Yancy's chair... when she called him a horrible boy.' (Frowns, shifting uncomfortably) Geez, okay...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

I recently lisened to 3 audio books:

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind",
"Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI",
"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"

The books covered belief systems that I had no idea about such as humanism!

It's funny how you can fit into certain ideologies without even knowing about the existance of that belief system.

Thoughts lately

What does it mean to manage a product?

aka. How to evaluate the value that is present in an existing product

Ask yourself:

What have we built from a deconstruction and page type perspective?

list page

As an app owner/maintainer how do I know that the user is not a bot?

5 senses

see
- organizer takes a video of checkpoint and then user takes a video of
- participant takes a video of same checkpoint (video has to be different but still valid)
smell
hear
touch

https://github.com/dustinspecker/awesome-eslint?tab=readme-ov-file#configs-by-well-known-companiesorganizations

Javascript React Project

Typescript React Project

Diff the configs:

npm init

Boolean() or !! (double bang, double negation)?

What's the best way to answer the question "true or false?" in JavaScript

JavaScript does not bother you too much with types (at first), which is both a blessing and a cure. But we all know the Boolean type. Boolean variables can either be true or false. Yes or no.

Every value in JavaScript can be translated into a boolean, true or false. Values that translate to true are truthy, values that translate to false are falsy. Simple.

This is about two ways to make that translation.

Filling some Typescript gaps:

The longer you have been around, the more the landscape shifts.
We often learn just enough to move forward.
You might even study intently.
But then, you may have studied and learned a feature set that has since had more features published/released.

Looking at some tan-stack table code today ran into some typescript that was foreign to myself: link.

According to the typescript docs this is called optional-element-access, which lets you access both objects and arrays with strings and/or numbers.

	const listeners = (function listAllEventListeners() {
	let elements = [];
	const allElements = document.querySelectorAll('*');
	const types = [];
	for (let ev in window) {
	if (/^on/.test(ev)) types[types.length] = ev;
	}

	for (let i = 0; i < allElements.length; i++) {
	const currentElement = allElements[i];